Lavilliers Acoustique Quotes & Sayings

Scientific method seeks to understand things as they are, while alchemy seeks to bring about a desired state of affairs. To put it another way, the primary objective of science is truth, - that of alchemy, operational success. — George Soros

These views were voiced by the school of 'optessimists', i.e. philosophers who derived optimism for the future from a pessimistic appraisal of the present. The 21st Voyage, The Star Diaries — Stanislaw Lem

I know I wasn't the person you needed me to be before, but I can be if you'll let me. — Rachel Spangler

Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. — Louis C.K.

There weren't many good things to be said or felt about my situation. Not many at all. But the rule is that after any engagement, won or lost, you replay it in you mind to see how much you can learn. So that's what I did ... — Hugh Laurie

Child, looking through bubbles into the future; now those bright bubbles were all behind him. Once more he had — Hans Christian Andersen

When I was a girl
the books I read were by men.
— Sharon Doubiago

The only thing she could do now was to shed a few tears, feeling rather afraid of herself, an intelligent young woman, who had everything going for her, but who tended to make the wrong decisions. She just hoped that this time she was right. — Paulo Coelho

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought. — Wayne Dyer

A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork. — Robert Frost

Know, then," said he, "that I myself am the destiny - the demon, as thou sayest, by whom I am persecuted and destroyed, that my conscience is loaded with guilt, nay, with the stain of a shameful, infamous, and mortal crime, — E.T.A. Hoffmann

Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason. — Bryan Callen

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. — Norman Cousins